Stand-up show in which Janet Street-Porter rants against growing old gracefully as she approaches her 80th birthday.
Janet Street-Porter comes to The Albany Theatre on Thursday 22 April 2027, with her show Janet Street-Porter Is Still Off The Leash at 80!. It's a tour de force rant against growing old gracefully, and the timing is the point: she's taking to the road again as she approaches her 80th birthday.
If you know her, you know the voice. She's spent a career as a broadcaster, television executive and newspaper editor, and this puts her on stage in the flesh. The show mixes comedy, tragedy and gossip in equal measure, and it doesn't hold back on the personal stuff. She talks about growing up as a bolshy child with a Welsh-speaking budgie, and how she's since become a National Treasure—described by some as the nation's favourite 'pissed-off pensioner'.
She won't be up there alone, either. She's accompanied by her fifth husband, and her friend Elton has called her 'the bitch'. It's that kind of energy that carries the night—the sort of thing that works best when it's spoken rather than read.
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Practical details: it starts at 7:30pm and runs for one hour and 40 minutes. Tickets are £32, and the Albany advises ages 14 and over.
